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Revolution Newsletters: Issue 27 - April 2012

Welcome to the April edition of the Revolution Newsletter, now in its third year! Every month, we bring you the latest news about R from Revolution Analytics and around the Web. We include tips and tricks on using R, events of interest to the R community, and information about products and initiatives from the team at Revolution Analytics. This newsletter is for you, so let us know what you think -- send us feedback at my email address below. If you find this newsletter valuable, forward it to your friends. And if you've received this newsletter from a friend, you can subscribe here to get your own copy each month. Enjoy!

Every month, we bring you the latest news about Revolution's products and events in this section. Follow us on Twitter at @RevolutionR for up-to-the-minute news and updates from Revolution Analytics!

Using Revolution R Enterprise with the IBM Netezza appliance, you can build powerful predictive models for Big Data using using Naive Bayes and Classification Trees, as shown in this demonstration video.

Revolution Analytics is proud to sponsor R/Finance 2012, the premier conference devoted to applied financial analysis using R. Register now for two-days of in-depth presentations May 11-12 in Chicago, including David Humke (Northern Trust) who will speak on Operational Risk Measurement with R and RevoScaleR.

The annual Future of Open Source Survey (sponsored by the 451 Group, Revolution Analytics and other open-source firms) tracks opinions and trends on the use of open-source software in commercial organizations. Please take 5 minutes to provide your input. The conclusions from the 2011 survey are available here.

R News, Tips and Tricks from the Revolutions blog

The Revolutions blog brings you daily news and tips about R, statistics and open source. Here are some highlights from Revolutions from the past month.

April 17: The Greater Boston R User Group features a presentation on seamless R and C++ integration; Denver has a meeting on Bayesian Data Analysis in R, and Portland discusses "propensity score matching" in R.

April 24: The Adelaide R Users Group has a presentation on combining R and LaTeX with Sweave; in Sydney there's an introduction to mapping and geospatial analysis in R; and Vancouver looks at calling R from Python.